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Tag: Catherine Aird

Posted on May 2, 2016

Monkey See, Monkey Do

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
Albert Schweitzer

Makak neonatal imitation
“If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.”
from His Burial Too by Catherine Aird

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The ancient Egyptians, incidentally, treated arthritis with electric catfish—or, as the hieroglyphics call them, "angry catfish". Remarkably, electric catfish can be trained to stun on cue, which seems like something coastguards and river police should be looking into before a supervillain does.
—The Ambition of a Potato

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